Tired of Wordle? Try These Other Word Games Next

Wardle has become one of the most popular word games since Josh Wardle launched it more than four years ago, in 2021. The game asks players to guess a five-letter word in six tries or less (we have two-step strategy that will help you solve the puzzle every time). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for incorrect letters, yellow blocks for correct letters in the wrong location, and green blocks for correct letters in the correct location.

CNET Gael Cooper has many tips and tricks to solve every NY Times Wordle puzzle, but if you've been playing this game every day for the past few years, you might be getting tired of it. Luckily, there are other word games and puzzles you can play.

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Here are 10 more puzzle games you can play right now.

Connections

Another New York Times puzzle. Connections This is a challenging word game. “Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes,” New York Times. wrote on X. There are also four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple. The game is also similar to the BBC quiz Only Connect, and the show's host took it to X to indicate a connection. See what I did there?

You can play Connections in any web browser, but you need a New York Times subscription (which starts from 1 dollar per week) play.

Strands

Strands is another New York Times-owned puzzle game, but this one is more of a word search game than Wordle and Connections. This game introduces a theme every day to help you find the words in the grid. In Strands, words can appear forward, backward, top-down, or any other way in a traditional word search, and words can be shaped like an “L” or in a zigzag shape. Once you find a word, tap the first letter and swipe through the remaining letters. The puzzle uses all the letters, so if you have letters left that aren't connected to words, you're not done yet.

You can play Strands on any web browser, but you'll need a New York Times subscription (again, $1 per week) play.

Quartiles

Quartiles is a new word game that Apple News Plus subscribers can access on their iPhone or iPad it's running iOS 17.5 or later. In this word game, you are given 20 letter tiles and try to put them together to form different words. The longest words are four tiles long and are called quartiles. The game can be challenging, but finding at least one of the quartiles is as satisfying as remembering something that was just on the tip of your tongue.

You can play Quartiles on iPhone or iPad, but you'll need an Apple News subscription (which starts at $13 per month) play.

Several additional Wordle products: Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle

Are you ready to take on the challenge? If you love Wordle and want puzzle games that require more brainpower, you should try either Dordle, Quordle, Octordle or Cedecordle. Each of these word games is similar to Wordle, but adds more rows, columns, and words to solve. Each game requires you to solve a different number of words at once: in Dordle you have to solve two words, in Quordle you have to solve four, in Octordle you have to solve eight at once, and in Cedecordle you have to solve as many as 16. Good luck.

You can play Dordle, Quordle, Octordle or Cedecordle in any web browser.

Ludl

“Lewdle is a game about rude words,” the game's content says. “If you would be offended by the use of profanity, vulgarity or obscenity, then this is probably not for you.” Translation: It's Wordle, but with bad words. The words range from mild ones, like poop, to words that would make a sailor blush. Fortunately, despite the content warning for this game, insults not included. Like Wordle, grey, yellow and green blocks are used equally and only one puzzle is solved per day. So go ahead and let the bad words out!

You can play Ludl in any web browser. You can also download this game from the Apple website. App Store or Google Play shop.

Antislovo

Tired of seeing those grey, yellow and green blocks scattered all over your social media feed? Try Antiwordle. While Wordle wants you to guess a word in as few tries as possible, Antiwordle wants you to avoid that word by guessing as many times as possible. When you guess correctly, the letters will turn grey, yellow or red. Gray means the letter is not in the word and cannot be used again, yellow means the letter is in the word and must be included in each subsequent guess, and red means the letter is in the exact position in the word and is locked in place. If you can use every letter on the keyboard without typing the correct word, you will win. Honestly, I think this version of Wordle is much more complex than the original.

You can play Antislovo in any web browser.

Absurd

Absurdle bills itself as the “adversarial version” of Wordle. While Wordle nudges you in the right direction with every guess, Absurdle tries to avoid the correct answer. According to the game's website: “With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if necessary.” Absurd doesn't choose a word at the beginning of the game so the player can guess. Instead, it uses the player's guesses to narrow down the list of words to make the game last as long as possible. The last word may not even include the yellow letter from one of your previous guesses. You can guess as many times as you like, which is rewarding, and the best score you can get is four. Have fun!

You can play Absurd in any web browser.

For more word game fun, visit CNET. Wordle Tips, best jokes in Wordle And everything you need to know about word games. You can also find out what you need to know about other New York Times-owned games. Connections And Strands.